Happy says she’s received a lot of criticism for filming, instead of helping her daughter at that point.

But, she says, she needed to get proper evidence to prevent this happening again.

“I was trying hard not to cry. And really hard not to freak out,” she said. “But it was easy to keep calm when you realize you have to, for your child, because if you were to have seen her face when she got down… She was already so scared.”

When Happy confronted the instructor about what had happened, she says she denied everything. Happy immediately took the footage to a Funtopia supervisor.

‘Far from anything acceptable’

Funtopia owner Yasen Nikolov told Vancity Buzz the instructor was fired that night, as soon as he saw the video.